Better Cygwin

You install cygwin on your PC and, at install time, you pick all the packages that sound cool. A month later, you haven't tried a single one out. And, you have no clue what you installed. Sound familiar? Now M$ is soft - they give you a shortcut to everything you installed from the Start menu. What cygwin needs is a gui that can give you a snapshot of your install, a brief desciption of each "big" package you installed and a button to start it with some default options.

People Friendly Linux

In the vein of geeks-aren't-normal-people..

How about linux package designers create short vidoes of how to install and use their packages on a distro that they're unfamiliar with and then post those videos on YT?

I'm disappointed that Google hasn't done anything for Open Source. If they had applied themselves, by now we could all be rid of M$ completely. That hasn't happened and I'm using XL and PPT more intensively than ever.

Badaling Blitzkrieg

This should be a hit with American youngsters. As folks know, in Badaling zoo, children get to pet sheep and then buy them and have them fed to the lions while they watch. How about a videogame where you get thrown to the lions, but being fully armed with the latest peashooter. If you're good with your gun, you live, else you get eaten up.

Saving LA Fitness

Last I saw, they were pretty depressed - trying hard to get new members. Here's a tip - hand out DVD players to members, or instll treamills (etc) that have DVD players. That way, members can choose what they watch - they could record shows onto DVDs or bring movies in. And hand out really good noise-cancelling headphones too.

TI-DLP Enables Any-Angle Projection

You've seen that in the cricket matches - projecting onto the field from a non-orthogonal angle and still getting a perfect picture. But, with present day projectors, you have to set the screen up perfectly. Not good - you would have thought the smart people of the world would have got this done by now. The projector just needs to be able to look at the wall - then, it'll project a standard image, calibrate itself and you're set.

Better Blogger - Auto Maintenence

You want to share something with the world - for example, an audio file that's already out there. Now, you do a search and find a few links and pick one. But, how about putting in the HTML a couple of the other links as alternates. Then, periodically blogger does maintenence and finds that your first choice is defunct and starts using the next one, etc. You get the idea. Let's hope they do.

Register Pitbulls

A sex offender is a threat but he isn't instantly life threatening to every other form of life. Pitbulls are. I think we all should be able to see instantly how many pitbulls live around us and be able to call a number and have them call us back with the locations of all dangerous dogs that live around us. It should be illegal to post details about the exact addresses on the internet - since that makes the owners unsafe from pitbull-haters.

Then, how about a mechanism that detects if a pit-bull is out of restraint? Leash breaks, is out of secure area and collar RFID tag detects that muzzle is not on, etc. These should be no-brainers to implement. When that happens, the entire vicinity should go on alert - car radios that are on (or make the cars smart enough to turn on the radios) will sound the alert and people can get into their cars or others' cars (if others are willing) to take shelter and call 911.

Also, I think there should be required regular testing and certification - both the owner and the dog must be given a basic test every so often that will decide if either is a menace to society. If either fails the test, the dog would need to be culled.